FROM AMAZON: In the latest galaxy-spanning The Clone Wars adventure, Anakin Skywalker and his young Padawan Ahsoka Tano go undercover in the cutthroat world of podracing in hopes of crushing a diabolical Separatist spy ring. Watch out, Jedi - speed kills!

Man, these quarterly digest comics tying into the new The Clone Wars TV show are just not rocking it for me the way the old Clone Wars Adventures ones did. I think four short stories work better than one long one does in this instance. Or maybe it's not so much the medium as the story being told with it-- Anakin going back to the podracing circuit now that he's a Jedi Knight has great dramatic potential, but instead we mostly get some "thrilling" romantic antics from Ahsoka. And podracing had pretty much been played out as a source of excitement within five minutes of its introduction in The Phantom Menace, so I'm not sure why we're going back to that well here. As always, the clean, kinetic, fun art of the Fillbach Brothers saves this thing, and they're the reason I keep coming back. I hope they get the opportunity to write one of these volumes; the stories that they wrote and illustrated were always my favorites of the CWA series.